Zack Snyder's Profane Tirade on Why His Batman Kills – IGN News

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1. I paused my music to watch a video, then realized it was only music so I muted it and continued to watch the "video"

2. Highly effective batman who kills will clean the gotham city out…no joker, no mobs nothing. Snyder is basic

3. So edgy I might get cut

4. Classic IGN. Rewords the title of the video 3 times in the opening 20 seconds before revealing actual content.

5. This shows why the Snyder films are crap. He doesn't respect the source material. It's a fantasy. We're not supposed to care if they take from their own companies resources and whatever other dumb excuse he has. They are fantasy characters. What we care about is that they rise above the criminals by not killing them. It's a lesson to us that there is a better way and they are symbols and examples to us all and the stories told in the comics is to inspire us and give us hope and an escape from reality.

6. Does… does he think Batman is a Documentary? Let us have our hopes personified so others can aspire to greater than what we have now.

7. And this is a f**king comic book and movie. Just go with the flow Snyder.

8. He has a point.

9. I like Watchmen, Man of Steel, but BvS was rushed and had to many parts. Besides, that Lex Luthor doesnt work at all. He was making Injustice, that Flash scene coming from the future was too simple for the main audience to understand, instead of Batman nightmares we should have The Flash in the future, scapping from a villian that we canonly see the red eyes glowing.

10. oh dont worry Batman only kills indirectly…

11. Well, Zack Snyder just took his career and took it out back and shot it in the head. Way to go Snyder.

12. Oh zack… Fantasy is a major part of what makes comic book heroes so appealing. Not everything needs to be realistic in a movie about comic characters.

13. No wonder warner brother boot this man from production

14. Awww, Snyder’s still begging for his job back.

15. He just does not understand the character SMH

16. Batman doesn’t kill. Way to kill a character and break the core concept of the character philosophy

17. Please keep this guy away from any more comic characters!!!!

18. It is still stupid, Zack.

19. Still working on coherent sentences though I see!

20. I don't condone the way Snyder went about expressing himself but we can't ignore the fact that the Micheal Keaton iteration of Batman also killed people. He threw one of the Joker's henchman off the bell tower, he bombed the Ace Chemical Plant full of Joker goons, he opened fire on Joker's men in the Bat-wing and in Batman Returns, he even straps a bomb to a guy and smiles over it. It's fine if you don't like the idea of Batman killing people (hell, I don't really agree with the decision that much myself), but if Keaton's Batman can get away with blatantly murdering people, then I fail to see what makes Snyder's interpretation of the character so sacrilegious for behaving similarly.

    That being said, I believe you could also make a case that his actions make sense within the context of BvS. When we see him in BvS, he has been fighting crime for years and due to several events (death of Robin and witnessing the battle of metropolis first-hand, etc) he has become quite cynical and displays very little hope for humanity. Therefore it kind of makes sense that he has abandoned many of his principles (including the no-kill rule) essentially losing sight of the principles that The Batman was built upon. It's ultimately Superman's sacrifice that ends up restoring his faith in humanity. I'm not trying to debate over who plays a better Batman nor am I trying to argue that BvS is a masterpiece of a film. I'm just saying that within the context of the story, his murderous behavior ends up being a crucial aspect of his character to show just how far he has fallen and to make his eventual return to the light by the end of the film more meaningful. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

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